NFS Mounts

[Rick Stevens]

Rob Freeman wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dan Weisenstein" <dan at tesoro.com>
> To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 2:00 PM
> Subject: NFS Mounts
> 
> 
> 
>>I have two Linux systems - one Fedora and one SuSE. I'm attempting to
>>mount a file system from one on the other (either way).
>>
>>I've placed the file system in /etc/exports and done an exportfs -a to
>>populate xtab. nfsd and rpc.mountd are running. I've put ALL:ALL in
>>/etc/hosts.allow. The host names are in each others hosts files.
>>
>>mount hostname:/home/shared /mnt/hostname
>>
>>always returns a permission denied. What am I missing?
>>
>>Thanks- Dan
> 
> 
> Just a guess, but does the user trying to mount this have rights to
> /mnt/hostname?

Also make sure portmapper is running.  Did you grant the NFS client
rights to mount the NFS export on the server in /etc/exports?
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